Movies

A surreal fairy tale set in an Uzbek pastoral.

The story of Alena Lozovskaya, founder of the footwear and clothing brand Razumno.

Film about one of Russia's most unusual indie bands, Dagestani jazz band "No, you're kidding".

A personal essay film about the life, death and resurrection of the great Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak

During the evacuation of her island home, Rebecca McKay refuses to leave due to her belief that her missing son may still be alive. Despite the insistence of her husband Calum, to abandon hope, Rebecca goes to extremes to find an answer.

Diagnosed as completely nearsighted at age 6, I have spent my life in a blur. A journey through the not always clear twists and turns of ophthalmology.

Two aspiring sibling chefs scramble to prepare an elaborate dinner to prove themselves to their harsh food critic mother. As the night unfolds, their talent and ambition shine, but so do buried tensions and long-standing resentment.

In the stunning beauty of the Kimberley, this feature length documentary is a cinematic story of hope, rising from the quiet, unexpectedly powerful bond between a cast of young people and horses, who are participating in a uniquely special sanctuary created by Aboriginal researcher Professor Juli Coffin.

Trapped in a bathroom overgrown with water and vegetation, a young woman tries to adapt to the unexpected visits of a strange boy who keeps observing her.

Evan, an ordinary young man, wanted to be seen, admired. At all costs. Invisible for as long as he could remember, rejected, humiliated online, mocked in real life, he then becomes an executioner to finally be under the spotlight.

In a whirlwind of magical mishaps and roller-skating mayhem, Sahara, a magic-less teenager, unwittingly finds herself thrust into the fantastical world of roller derby. Teaming up with a squad of quirky, spell-slinging roller derby girls, she embarks on a hilarious journey from zeroes to heroes, determined to conquer the derby scene and prove that even without magic, She’s got what it takes to win it all.

Set in Oakland, Watermelon in Wintertime is a radical horror music video following a being who embodies society’s outcasts. Compelled to exist, in spite of systemic violence, physical and spiritual warfare and their mental health. And forced to eat surreal winter watermelons — a metaphor for the media-fed narratives of war and genocide — their journey becomes a visceral protest against oppression from America to Palestine to Sudan.

Damn Y’all Fine follows Baltimore’s Black queer artists and activists as they style identity on their own terms, how the city shapes the way they express gender, sexuality, and self.

Short film by actress Anastasia Kuimova.

A generative film exploring the automation of culture through one of the earliest electronic instruments: the Telharmonium. As in much of Menick’s work, the film links the history of technology with contemporary anxieties about artificial intelligence and the mechanization of creative labor.

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In the second part of this magnificent concert celebrating music from across Europe, Lukas Sternath, Martha Argerich, Bruce Liu and Hayato Sumino perform the finest piano concertos by Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

To mark Music Day, ten European orchestras will perform some of the finest piano concertos alongside prestigious soloists and under the baton of renowned conductors from various cities across the continent. The programme for this exceptional concert features works by Brahms, Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel and Mozart.

At the age of seventeen, Zahide is married off to a man fifteen years her senior. Within the sixth month of their marriage, her husband passes away, leaving her pregnant. A few months later, she gives birth to their child.Soon after, Zahide’s sister is also married—this time to the younger brother of Zahide’s late husband. When her sister, too, is widowed while carrying a child and already raising three others, Zahide is compelled, against her will, to marry the surviving brother of her deceased husband. Bound by the constraints of their time, the two sisters come to share not only the same household but also the same destiny. Their lives unfold as a profound testimony to the harshest realities imposed upon women, where personal desire yields to societal pressure, and survival necessitates the surrender of choice. This narrative portrays the endurance of two sisters navigating an oppressive system, their shared sorrow echoing the struggles of countless women silenced by history.

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